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This article is about the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic bishop. For the Jewish-Ukrainian poet, writer, translator and diplomat, see Ivan Kulyk.
Ivan Kulyk
Eparchial Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
ChurchUkrainian Greek Catholic Church
Appointed10 September 2019
PredecessorVasyl Semeniuk as Archiepiscopal Administrator
SuccessorIncumbent
Other post(s)Parish priest of Santi Sergio e Bacco (2009–2019)
Orders
Ordination8 May 2005 (Priest)
by Vasyl Semeniuk
Consecration1 December 2019 (Bishop)
by Sviatoslav Shevchuk
Personal details
Born
Ivan Mykhaylovych Kulyk

(1979-03-16) 16 March 1979 (age 45)
Perevoloka, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR

Bishop Ivan Kulyk (Template:Lang-uk; born 16 March 1979 in Perevoloka, Buchach Raion, Ternopil Oblast, Ukrainian SSR) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch as the first Eparchial Bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi since 10 September 2019.

Life

Bishop Kulyk, after graduation of the school education, joined the Major Theological Seminary in Ternopil in 1997 and then continued his studies in the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. After returning in Ukraine he was ordained as priest on May 8, 2005 for Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ternopil,[1] and during 2005–2009 he attended Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, Italy, receiving a licentiate degree in the patristic theology.

At the same time, while studied in Rome, during 2006–2009 he served as a parish priest in the different Ukrainian Catholic communities in Italy and in 2009 was appointed as a parish priest of Santi Sergio e Bacco.[2]

On September 10, 2019, his election by the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church as the first eparchial bishop of Kamyanets-Podilskyi, Ukraine was confirmed by Pope Francis. On December 1, 2019, he was consecrated as bishop by Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk and other hierarchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the Nativity of Mary Cathedral in Khmelnytskyi.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Bishop Ivan Kulyk". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 1 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Dalle Chiese Orientali, 10.09.2019". Official the Holy See Website (in Italian). Retrieved 10 September 2019.

See also

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Vasyl Semeniuk
as Archiepiscopal Administrator
 Eparchial Bishop of
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Kamyanets-Podilskyi
2019– 		Succeeded by
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